but the same thing happened out here in western addition that we are not benefiting from any of our tax dollars or bond money from the school district and so we are asking you to put this off and go back to where you were in negotiating with us to do the job and we can do the job. and some of the things in there talking about elevations and all of this, look, i have been building buildings for 43 years, we have people that can build buildings, as a matter of fact slaves built the white house, so we don't need that kind of talk coming to us about our qualifications. and what we want you to do is what you came up with and coming up with the way that it will be lawful for our group to build a middle school. thank you. >> good evening, my name is robert woods. i came here this evening to... i like to ask the question as to the way that you issue no-bid contracts. i won't say that it is illegal, and i'm not going to say that it is legal. but, when you issue a non-bid contract of this nature and you won't give a community square job and you issue a 44 million dollar contract to a contractor w